Brutally honest presidential speech (video)
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Should we, as humans, crawl back into our caves and claim resource limitations as the cause? Claim greed was our downfall? Claim that this was all just too much for the human race?
I might be a romantic, but it seems to me that focusing on ways to make all peoples lives better is what we should continue to do. We should be technologically solving that which has plagued humanity the most: limited energy and resources.
We shouldn't be spending our time focusing on conservation. We should be focusing on how to make conservation un-necessary. Only then, will poverty go away.
Maybe, just maybe, the ideas like mining asteroids, fusion, nano-technology, and AI, just to name a few, are silly. However, they are a lot less silly than creating artificial centrally planed markets like carbon offsets to alleviate poverty.
That being said I leave this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk .